Indies shared with Aragon

OTL, Colon discovered Indies for Castile and Leon.
Subjects of Aragon, including Catalans and Neapolitans, were aliens and as such unwelcome in Indies.

Colon had offered to serve Portugal and been turned down. Had Portugal accepted, Spain would have had no grounds to claim West Indies.

In 1492, Catholic Monarchs had been wed for over 20 years. Did Fernando participate in receiving Colon? Precisely how did Fernando and Isabel agree that Indies would be hers alone and Fernando would have no share in costs nor benefits?

Could Fernando and Isabel have agreed, before Colon set out, that Indies would be somehow shared? If yes, on what terms? What would the consequences have been?
 
Castile sharing Indies with Aragon would have been a very suboptimal outcome as far as Ferdinand and especially Isabella was concerned. In such a situation, the Aragonese Indies (AI) would probably have become yet another 'component' of the Aragonese Crown, similar to the situation with Sicily, Valencia, Catalonia etc. That would mandate the AI having its own Corts (Parliament), with mandatory gatherings (overseen by Viceroys), bourgeoisie representation, and power to enact legislation and vote taxes to the Aragonese Crown. Castilian monarchs had to be physically be in Aragon to ask for Aragonese taxes and special subsidies; and unsurprisingly the Aragonese were far meaner with their cash than the muzzled Castilian Cortes, which neither had to be summoned nor had the power of legislation.

As such, giving Aragon any share of the new discoveries would have been anathema for a Castilian monarch still very much concerned with administrative centralization, not so much for autocracy's sake but rather to strengthen the Crown against the powerful nobility of Andalusia. The successful assertion of royal authority in the New World - economic monopolization under Seville, control over governorships, land surveying/apportioning, town charters and most of all, the outlining of colonist/conquistador rights through the practice of capitulacion - would have been near-impossible with an uncooperative Aragonese Corts in the way.

Isabella had no power over Aragon, while Ferdinand slowly increased his influence in Castile due to his presence at Toledo and especially after he became regent for Juana in 1506.
 
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